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Sixty years have passed since Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the year 1772 the enlightened Emperor Ch'ien Lung, who then sat upon the throne, gave orders that a descriptive Catalogue should be prepared of the books in the Imperial Library.
From China and the Chinese by Giles, Herbert Allen
We have read of a lame old priest so renowned for self-denying liberality that the great Emperor Ch'ien Lung actually paid him a visit.
From Historic China, and other sketches by Giles, Herbert Allen
After some conversation Ch'ien Lung presented him with a valuable pearl, which the old man immediately bestowed upon a beggar he espied among the crowd.
From Historic China, and other sketches by Giles, Herbert Allen
Emperors of China— Ch'ien Lung, catalogue enterprise, 69.
From China and the Chinese by Giles, Herbert Allen
China China's Manchu Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 64, who likes to spend his afternoons writing poetry and practicing calligraphy, has just won another smashing victory on the battlefield.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is a most voluminous work, published in the tenth year of Ch'ien-lung, A.D.
From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James
The author was a member of the Han-lin college, and the work was first published with an imperial preface by the Ch'ien-lung emperor.
From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James
The tablet of Tsze-zo is now the sixth, east among 'The Wise Ones,' to which place it was promoted in the third year of Ch'ien-lung of the present dynasty.
From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James
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